About:
Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.

Author:
Samuel Abels [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.43/10.00 (12 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.debain.org/?project=3
Tar/GZ:
http://www.debain.org/[..]php?id=70&file=cantus_3-3.0pre1-1.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.debain.org/?project=3&cat=4
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/cantus/
Mailing list archive:
https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/cantus-devel

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome, X11 Applications :: GTK
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

Dependencies: [change]
libogg (optional)
libvorbis (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Development	3.0pre1-1	03-Apr-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stable	3.0.0-1	23-Apr-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] doesn't work but thanks
by spiritlover - Oct 28th 2003 06:06:15

It opens the window but it never fills in the details and finishes the startup. (slack9.1)
So I REALLY appreciate the uninstall-file you included! :)

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[»] Cantus back to life
by Samuel Abels - Jun 17th 2003 00:54:49

I've just prepared the first snapshot of Cantus 2, so Cantus *is* no longer dead.

-Samuel

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[»] Development stopped.
by Samuel Abels - Oct 31st 2002 16:06:41

Development ate up too much of my time so this project is now dead.
Everyone interested in taking over Cantus is welcome.

Find the sources are at

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cantus/

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[»] Re: Development stopped.
by Ryan Speed - Feb 26th 2003 16:43:36


> Development ate up too much of my time
> so this project is now dead.
> Everyone interested in taking over
> Cantus is welcome.
>
> Find the sources are at
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cantus/

I see that a new release came out today, with debian maintainer info added to the AUTHORS file, will there be active development, just bugfixes, or none of the above?

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[»] Re: Development stopped.
by Samuel Abels - Feb 27th 2003 07:18:57


> I see that a new release came out today,
> with debian maintainer info added to the
> AUTHORS file, will there be active
> development, just bugfixes, or none of
> the above?
For the 1.05 release only bugfixes are planned.

This project has been taken over by Josh Hoyt.
Josh has already put a lot of effort in the project, but at the moment we are moving forward quite slow. Also, the CVS version is broken at the moment.

However, there will be development in the future and the next release will probably come with major changes so this project is no longer dead.

-Sam

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[»] Great idea!
by spiritlover - Oct 15th 2002 01:07:29

This is really a great thing, I had often wanted one that did as much as my favorite renamer did in windoze, and here it is.
The only thing I see lacking is that I couldn't add a set label to the beginning of a bunch of file-names (i.e. add "artistname" to the begnning of 01-songname.mp3, 02-songname.mp3, 03-songname.mp3, etc) And perhaps that function exists but I haven't found it.
Anyway, thanks for the great help in organizing and standardizing my mp3files! :)

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[»] Re: Great idea!
by Samuel Abels - Oct 16th 2002 11:50:08


> The only thing I see lacking is that I
> couldn't add a set label to the
> beginning of a bunch of file-names (i.e.
> add "artistname" to the
> begnning of 01-songname.mp3,
> 02-songname.mp3, 03-songname.mp3, etc) You can use the "change format" rule:
Simply change from "%a" to "artistname-%a".

-sam

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[»] Re: Great idea!
by spiritlover - Oct 18th 2002 17:50:58

btw, if you want me to NOT post things, just tell me and I'll try to email you direct)
I've started having probs with "File exists!"...it comes up, even when there's only one copy, and that's the one I'm editing. I'm assuming it's meant for situations where you try to rename something to a name that's not unique, however mine are unique and it's still saying "no, can't do it". I don't know why it's doing this, but it's pretty frustrating since the ones that went thru look so pretty and nice. ;)

any ideas? Is it me? Is it Cantus? Is it the position of the sun and stars in relation to my PC? :P

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[»] Re: Great idea!
by spiritlover - Oct 31st 2002 09:26:16

Hello?

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[»] Re: Great idea!
by Samuel Abels - Oct 31st 2002 16:10:50

It is probably a Cantus problem, but from my site development has stopped. If you can write in C/GTK, find the sources at http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cantus/ Sorry!

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[»] Re: Great idea!
by spiritlover - Dec 30th 2002 12:59:54

No problem..I figured out what it is, it happens when the only change is from capital to small letters, and there's no other change to be made. It seems those are strictly cosmetic and so it doesn't see them as different things. So I leave them and it's fine. :)

Thanks for a great tool!!


> It is probably a Cantus problem, but
> from my site development has stopped.

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